The Quran

سورة العَنکبوت

Surah Al-‘Ankabût 29:37

The Spider · Verse 37 of 69

فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

But (instead of obeying him) they cried him (-Shu`aib) lies. So they were caught in a violent earthquake and they became (corpses) laid down on their breasts on the ground in their dwellings.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

But they rejected him: Then the mighty Blast seized them, and they lay prostrate in their homes by the morning.

Ahmed Ali

But they denied him and were seized by an earthquake, and lay overturned in their homes in the morning.

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Ali Unal

But they denied him, and in consequence a shocking catastrophe seized them, so that they lay prostrate (and lifeless) in their dwellings.

Daryabadi

Then they belied him; wherefore an earthquake laid hold of them, and they lay in their dwellings, crouching.

Faridul Haque

In response they denied him – thereupon the earthquake seized them – so at morning they remained lying flattened in their homes.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

But they rejected him, so a severe earthquake overtook them and they lay prostrate in their abodes.

Maulvi Sher Ali

But they called him a liar. So a violent earthquake seized them, and in their homes they lay prostrate upon the ground.

Muhammad Asad

But they gave him the lie. Thereupon an earthquake overtook them: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground.

Muhammad Musin Khan

And they belied him [Shu'aib (Shuaib)], so the earthquake seized them, and they lay (dead), prostrate in their dwellings.

Muhammad Pickthall

But they denied him, and the dreadful earthquake took them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling place.

Muhammad Sarwar

They rejected him so We jolted them with a violent earthquake and they were left motionless in their houses.

Muhammed ali Shakir

But they rejected him, so a severe earthquake overtook them, and they became motionless bodies in their abode.

Rashad Khalifa

They disbelieved him and, consequently, the earthquake annihilated them; they were left dead in their homes by morning.

Shabbir Ahmed

But they denied him. Thereupon a dreadful rainstorm and earthquake overtook them, and morning found them dead, prone in their homes. (26:189)